>> Note that the environment variable doesn't need to control the behavior
>of
>> the desktop environment, it should merily inform applications about the
>> prefix that's used for the current session.
>
>Just to make sure I understand correctly: the desktop environment actually
>doesn't have to use the configured prefix,
Correct, it could do so but it doesn't have to.
> but instead it should set it in
>case it has a hardcoded or otherwise configured one?
Yes.
>Because in this case we should probably fix my upstream patches and make
>sure Debian's startkde sets the variable correctly.
>
>Cheers,
>Kevin
>--
>Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
>KDE user support, developer mentoring